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Mission: Wayland Baptist University exists to educate students in an academically challenging, learning- focused and
distinctively Christian environment for professional success, and service to God and humankind.
CNSL 5314 Counseling Theories
Term/Year: Winter 2013-2014
Instructor: Peggy Wilson, Ph.D.
Contact information: (602) 279-1011
Office location: Phoenix Campus
Course Catalog Description: Advanced study of theories of the major counseling models from psychoanalysis
through the postmodern period.
Required Text:
Please purchase the bundle (text and manual).
Title: Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy, 9th Edition
Author(s): Gerald Corey - California State University, Fullerton (Emeritus)
ISBN-10: 1133399320
ISBN-13: 9781133399322
Edition / Copyright: 9th/2013
Publisher: Cengage
Book Type: Student text and manual
Course Outcome Competencies:
By the conclusion of the course, successful students will be able to:
1. recognize all major theories of counseling and psychotherapy.
2. recognize the major techniques and skills of a counselor.
3. use knowledge gained in class to be able to demonstrate counseling interventions.
4. be familiar with and understand ethics and multicultural issues related to counseling.
5. respond with appropriate use of focusing and following, open inquiry, reflection of feelings,
cognition, and content, summarization, structuring, goal setting, confrontation, immediacy, and selfdisclosure
6. identify the appropriate use for a variety of other affective, cognitive, behavioral, and systemic
techniques
7. describe the basic purposes and processes associated with the aforementioned techniques and their
use at different stages of counseling or consulting
8. identify how these techniques will interact with client variables such as age, cultural background,
presenting problem, and personality characteristics
9. critically evaluate their strengths and weaknesses in the use of the aforementioned techniques
10. identify objectives and strategies appropriate at various stages of counseling or consulting, including
technological strategies and applications
11. identify ethical issues that pertain to the use of these techniques
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COURSE GRADING CRITERIA:
This course consists of many assignments and activities. In order to avoid falling behind, attendance at all
sessions is required, all assigned work must be submitted when due. Late work will not be accepted.
Assignments
Journal Assignments/Activities
DVD Assignments (25pts/ea)
Mid Term exam
Comparison Research Paper
Final Exam
TOTAL POINTS
Possible
300
100
200
200
200
1000
Earned
Point Conversion Table
A = 900 -1000 points
B = 800 - 899 points
C = 700 - 799 points
D = 600 - 699 points
F = 599 points or below
ATTENDANCE: Attendance is mandatory, and class will meet the following weekends:
11/14/14 & 11/15/14
12/12/14 & 12/13/14
1/19/15 & 1/10/15
2/6/15 & 2/7/15
SERVICE FOR the DISABLED: “In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), it
is the policy of Wayland Baptist University that no otherwise qualified person with a disability be excluded
from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subject to discrimination under any educational program
or activity in the university. The Coordinator of Counseling Services serves as the coordinator of students with a
disability and should be contacted concerning accommodation requests at (806) 291-3765. Documentation of a
disability must accompany any request for accommodations.”
ACADEMIC HONESTY: Wayland "expects students to be honest in all of their academic work. By
enrolling, students agree to adhere to the highest standards of academic honesty and integrity and understand
that failure to comply with this pledge may result in academic and disciplinary action."
Plagiarism
“Plagiarism — The attempt to represent the work of another, as it may relate to written or oral works, computerbased work, mode of creative expression (i.e. music, media or the visual arts), as the product of one's own
thought, whether the other's work is published or unpublished, or simply the work of a fellow student. When a
student submits oral or written work for credit that includes the words, ideas, or data of others, the source of
that information must be acknowledged through complete, accurate, and specific references, and, if verbatim
statements are included, through use of quotation marks as well. By placing one’s name on work submitted for
credit, the student certifies the originality of all work not otherwise identified by appropriate
acknowledgements. A student will avoid being charged with plagiarism if there is an acknowledgement of
indebtedness. Examples include:
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1. Quoting another person's actual words.
2. Using another person's idea, opinion, or theory, even if it is completely paraphrased in one's own words.
3. Drawing upon facts, statistics, or other illustrative materials — unless the information is common knowledge.
4. Submitting a paper purchased from a term paper service as one's own work.
5. Failing to accurately document information or wording obtained on the World Wide Web.
6. Submitting anyone else's paper as one's own work.
7. Violating federal copyright laws, including unauthorized duplication and/or distribution of copyrighted
material.
8. Offering, giving, receiving or soliciting of any materials, items or services of value to gain academic
advantages for yourself or another.”
Source: http://www.spjc.cc.fl.us/webcentral/admit/honesty.htm#plag
Disciplinary action for academic misconduct is the responsibility of the faculty members assigned to the course.
The faculty member is charged with assessing the gravity of any case of academic dishonesty, and with giving
sanctions to any student involved. Penalties may be applied to individual cases of academic dishonesty see
catalog for more information about academic dishonesty.
rev 10/10/14
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